06.03.2010 - Closet Design

We did not get the build in wardrobe from our ID. We had signed a good deal few months back during exhibition at Singapore Expo. A company which specialize in wardrobe - Closet Design. (previous company named as Closet Work)

The reason we choose them was due to the quality. Their wood material and pole was excellent material. The wood is scratches and fire proved. And the pole is solid as well. Further more, they are using German technology. They have soft closure technology similar to BLUM for all drawers.

The staff in charge of our deal named Aiken. A young boy that has less experience, anyway..... a good chance for him to learn and get more experience. He has came to our house on Feb did the 1st measurement, yet no received anything (no layout, no measurement) from him till last few days before we going down today. Hubby quite pissed of this, and finally the layout sent out - but the design not ideal at all. Sigh.

Had appointment with him today, to choose material and designs we wanted. Their office located at Balestier Road, very inconvenient for us! :-( Went to Closet Design showroom, saw few layout wardrobe displays which similar as we saw before during the expo show. I had draw out few designs that we preferred, but ended up rejected by him due to some restrictions. Hate it! I was very unhappy on this. Ended up another senior name Luke came over to approach us and explain, and guess what! He managed did a measurement and layout base on my requirement. Good thing! At last the layout settled.. Thanks God!

We choose the post system(latest design) instead of US design which was popular few years back. And the color we choose is Dark Brown... with full height clear tinted glass as the sliding door.


Finger cross, everything turns up nicely. Wardrobe arrange to setup on 18th March. Will update after setup done.

Closet Design
355 Balestier Road
#01-355 Goodwill Mansion
Singapore 329782
Tel: 62521514
(recommend to look for Luke)
http://www.closetdesign.com.sg/

Week 4 Renovation (1st - 5th March 2010)

Day 1
Ceiling and wall patching work to be done today. Basically wherever spotted uneven or crack, will be plaster off so that when doing the painting work, outcome will become smoother. And especially the previous owner hang lots of creations on the wall, all over the house! Causing the wall left with all 'holes', so ugly!


MBR, study room and living hall ceiling & wall patching work


Our MBR entrance patched up to fit our glass door.

Oh ya, we spotted something different in our MBR today! Mini surprised from Mr.K, enhanced our MBR air con 'ugly' trunking. Glad he did something on it! Thanks Mr.K! ^_^ Let's spot it when our house done up :P

Day 2
Yeah, time to choose paint color! Painting work will be started in next 2 days. Happy~ Choosing color is not an easy task, we have to browse through many x times before confirm the color we wanted. Of course, Mr.K was very helpful on this! :P There are different types of paint, odorless, anti bacteria, easy wash, etc....


Start it by:

1) Knowing your color theme
Choose neutral color for all rooms and blend it with 1 different color OR all rooms have different color

2) Choose your color preferences follow by types (anti bacteria/easy wash)

3) Match the preferences color with different environment
- Cosy? - Master Room?
- Fun corner? - Study room?
- Baby room?

We had spent more than 1 hours just to choose the right color, phew~ Finally get it done! We choose white (neutral color) to blend with different color (Anti Bacteria) category. This is very important especially when we have kids :) Especially our Master Room, as baby will be sleeping with us for at least few years ^_^

We categorized kitchen area as different world, which is different theme :P Thus color have to be brighter!

We have to choose Solid Surface Top color for our kitchen and master bathroom basin top as well. We choose different textures but quite similar color.



Bi-Fold door as well for our common bathroom and store room, our master bathroom will be using glass door. We choose different design of Bi-Fold door for 2 different room, but both are Bi-Fold mirror door type, so called as new design. Hope it turn out nice, finger cross! >_<



Go Go Go! Thursday painting work started! Getting more & more excited! ^_^

Day 4 - Day 6
Painting work for these 3 days. The color turns out really nice, and the feeling when we step in the house was 'so bright'! Haha........


Nippon Paint that we choose


Master bedroom - 1st coat


Study room - Will wait for cabinet up then we decide the color again :P


Guest room - Love the Stream Blue - so calm :)


Kitchen - Linen White


Main door - coating with Dark Brown. The color turns up very nice, out of our expectation ^_^


Store room rack has to be removed - forgot to inform Mr.K about it. Gotta remove it soon before 2nd touch up

Next week will be more exciting! Our kitchen cabinet, shelves, tv console will be up soon! Excited!!

Week 3 Renovation (22nd - 26th Feb 2010)

Day 1 & Day 2
After back from CNY, our renovation work continue! Electrical and air con trunking to be installed on this two days and citigas installation as well.


Electrical work and citigas piping installation


Remove the Panasonic air con from previous owner


Air con trunking, insulation and new air con bracket

For air con trunking, we requested ½ inch insulation - Insurflex. You can request for Armaflex but do take note trunking size will be increase as it's thicker. As for copper wire we took 22swg and drainage pipe 16mm thick. The reason why hubby took leave to be there, is to make sure everything delivered in order. As once installation done, you will not be able to spot the details.

Note:
Please make sure terms and services to be noted in invoice for future reference and try to be there during the air con installation.

To know more knowledge on air con, please refer to http://singapore-aircon.blogspot.com/

Day 3 & Day 4
Air con installation work


Mitsubishi Starmex System 4


Trunking for living hall, MBR and Study Room


Wide & Long Air Flow for our Living Hall :)


Install the new compressor and filling in more gas


Cover up our new air con to avoid dust during the renovation

Day 5
Install water piping


MBR & common bathroom hot & cold water piping


Tiles crack spotted in common bathroom, will get our ID to fix it no matter what!


The hot & cold shower piping fixed wrongly in our common bathroom. It should be fix at the other side of the wall instead of the entrance. Going to meet Mr.K next week and get him to change it!


Hubby sealing up our new air con again, to make sure no 'allowances' available for the dust to sneak in :P


50% done for our sanctuary home :)

07.02.2010 - Electrical Point Layout

Met up our ID Mr.K to discuss our electrical power point layout. After 2 weeks of our renovation started, now then we gather have discussion with him IN our house! What a busy man! But at least he keep track of our on going renovation with the contractor for the past 2 weeks. Our electrical/air con work will start right after Chinese New Year, before the carpentry work on March.

Mr.K 'drawing' everywhere, stated all power point layout


The 'shadow' of Mr.K, and hubby


After discussed all the power point, we fixed a date for the electrical, air con and city gas work on 24th Feb 2010. Gonna be SUPER busy right after CNY, and hubby has to busy coordinating all schedule with the electrician, air con and city gas arrangement. Due to Mr.K met us so late, we still haven't get quotation from any electrician yet, same as air con :-( Now we stuck with the tight schedule timing, BLAME our ID who met us so LATE!!!!!!!!!!

*Please remember to get your ID/contractor to confirm power point with you as early as possible so that you could start finding for all the quote

Manage to confirm our bed frame color today as well, since we always have the hard time to meet up with Mr.K, we drag him to Ackerman & Smith to choose our bed frame color, before we let him off for the day!


Since we at Kaki Bukit, hubby suggested go to XZQT. Actually we had dropped by this place before, spotted 1 dining table, very designs - but too pricey! -_-" Still considering of the table, going to send Mr.K photo to see does it match our themes.


Ackerman & Smith
No. 1 Kaki Bukit Road 1 #01-23 Enterprise One Building
Singapore 415934
Tel : 6749 5755
http://www.ackerman.sg/


XZQT Studio
1 Kaki Bukit Road 1 #01-19/20 Enterprise 1
Singapore 415934
Tel: 67490813
http://www.xzqt.com.sg

Still hunting for dining table......... :S